Mrs. Shoebox and I enjoy an occasional glass or two of wine, and we tend to gravitate toward the sweeter stuff, which I’ve been told marks us as amateurs (I was actually informed of this at a wine tasting, to which I responded in a pouty voice “But I wanna be a snob NOOWWWWWW!”) And we had to discover the hard loud pukey way that port wines are NOT meant to be aged for six months in a living room. So I am definitely not a wine snob.
I am, however, a moderate music snob, probably a class 3 or so. I’m an obsessive liner-note reader, I like a lot of punk, metal, and indie stuff, I eschew most commercial radio, I cling to physical media like it’s the last hope, I can play the musical version of the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game with Jim Steinman, Ric Ocasek, or Brian Wilson, I’m in a band, and I used to write music reviews for a zine in Syracuse, during which time at one point I put a Windows 98 CD in my CD player, cranked it, and wrote a review slamming it as unlistenable rhythmless noise and recommending it to fans of Blonde Redhead.
…Okay, maybe a class 4.
Anyway, sorry this one’s a bit late. There’s probably a joke I could make here about it needing to breathe or something, but again, not a wine snob.
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I, too, like sweet wines, regardless of what those “in the know” think. IMO, if it tastes good, drink it. If you live near a Trader Joe’s, I HIGHLY recommend their Muscato di’Asti, it’s a sparkling white whine that I absolutely love and it is not expensive, I bought three bottles when we were in Phoenix because otherwise the closest TJ’s is around 250 miles one-way for us. You might also like Frangelico, it’s a hazelnut liquor that’s sweet and wonderfully fragrant.
If you like sweet wines, try ice wine. It’s something to do with letting the grapes freeze on the vine, but it comes out super sweet and delicious.
I don’t understand what those two people are saying. Not at all. Not remotely.
Man it’s the same with anything.. you like sweet things, candy, cute things.. your palate isn’t “mature”
Except not liking bitter things like coffee or dark chocolate is how you avoid poisons. avoiding poisons is gooood.
@ColdFusion but what if I like both sweet things (like sweet wine, candy etc.), /and/ dark chocolate and dark beer?
I think I’ve got a very mature palate thank you very much.
Don’t worry about it. People, like me, who prefer dry wines just drank too much Boone’s Farm in High School.
I also prefer ale to beer. I like that it’s more bitter and I also appreciate the extra alcohol content.
Cynical and hackneyed. Perhaps the vintner could have bothered to learn a fourth phenol in this utterly forgettable vintage of the day as he was stomping it out in his garage.
I just want to see this exact same strip, but with music people being wine snobs instead of the other way around.
@Baywolfe – I had a brief Mad Dog phase but it didn’t last.
@Brass – That’s awesome.
@Handgunman – I contemplated that, but I couldn’t find any clip art that properly conveyed the idea of swishing a tune around in your mouth and then spitting it out so you can try more without losing control control of your faculties. I do have a photo of Dr. Demento in a bath full of records, but that doesn’t help at all.
@Wayne – Our favorite of late is a German Riesling called Relax. We were pleasantly surprised to discover it was $9 a bottle.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am composing this comment in a McDonald’s playplace. It’s louder than anything in Edvard Munch’s nightmares and every surface has been painstakingly hand-greased to a shine by hyperactive children.
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All right then, how many degrees of separation between Jim Steinman and Freddie Mercury?
2.
Freddie Mercury was in Queen with Brian May.
Brian May played guitar on Meat Loaf’s “Bad for Good,” written by (and originally recorded by) Jim Steinman.
Too easy.
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Does anybody, even remotely, see the Peter Pan analogy in Bat Out of Hell? I’ve listened to that song for over 30 years and I still don’t get it.
Each person has his own preferences. Some enjoy sweet wine, some dry. The important thing is do not drink excessively.
i could use some brain bleach now- nude lawn ornaments…. *bol*
I can’t imagine selling my house by way of de personalizing. i have trouble with the idea even of getting rid of any of my books or cd’s. kudos to your parents for managing it.
worst horror story i’ve heard for selling- couple had to move out of their light seagreen house, but nobody’d buy after a year. they were told over and over by most prospective buyers that it was the color. so they finally repainted it white. as they were doing the last few boards, one couple who’d looked before came back. the reason the house had stuck in their head enuf to want to buy it? of course, the seagreen color… it’s not just buyers and sellers who are weird- it’s life.
and btw- i prefer very very sweet wine- even ice wine is nowhere sweet enuf. i hate taking a drink of something dry enough that i need to take another sip to moisten my mouth…. frangelico is DELIC!
which zine did you write for?